Adelaide captain Taylor 'Tex' Walker was furious while other players allegedly wanted Jake Lever omitted from the side to play in the AFL's finals series after news emerged the Crows defender wanted out to join Melbourne next season.

The fallout from Lever's decision to spurn this year's losing grand finalists for the Demons was in full swing on Wednesday with two-time Melbourne best-and-fairest Garry Lyon telling Melbourne radio the 21-year-old had to have a number of uncomfortable conversations.

"From what I'm hearing Tex Walker, as the captain of the football club, was furious and let him (Lever) know in no uncertain manner," Lyon told SEN Breakfast.

"I’m told it was very aggressive.

"We play in this system that allows you to make decisions. You’re not bound to play forever at one team. You’ve got options and you’ve got alternatives.

"When you’re a player who has travelled from interstate to play somewhere else, then obviously at some stage the pull to come home is going to be real or otherwise. For Jake it is real.

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SEN's Sam McClure added there were other players unhappy with the decision and suggested Lever will not attend the club's presentation night due to the amount of bad blood.

"There have been senior players at the Adelaide football club who have been unhappy about this situation for several months now," he said.

"It’s been going on at training and it’s been going on behind the scenes. It started off as banter; it increased to more than just that. In the last 48 hours it has got to the point where the pressure valve had to be released.

"When Jake Lever picked up the phone and decided to call every player on the list to explain what his decision was, and he was seeking a request home to the Melbourne footy club and to go home to Victoria to be closer to family, there were some players that accepted his phone call and were grateful for it.

"There were others, including the captain Taylor Walker who weren’t so happy, and the phone call was very short, and his intentions were made very clear.

"The exit meeting between the head of footy Brett Burton and (coach) Don Pyke didn’t go so amicably.

"My guess is you will not see Jake Lever at the best and fairest on Friday."

Journalist Michelangelo Rucci told Hungry for Sport that a number of players approached Pyke about omitting Lever from the finals series as punishment.

"When Lever did actually make his declaration to the Adelaide football club that he would be out, the word is beginning to strengthen that a senior group of Adelaide players actually went to Don Pyke and suggested they not play Lever in the finals series," Rucci said.